Linux Kernel (branches are rebased on master from time to time) https://sre.ring0.de/linux/atom?h=v3.10-rc5 2005-07-26T21:35:41Z 2005-07-26T21:35:41Z Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com 2005-07-26T17:29:55Z urn:sha1:7c9034735eccbf82608a4602c59aaf6053ea9416 When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly kernel_restart is the function to use. But in many instances the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler. This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling restart. emergency_restart() is expected to be callable from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more trying circumstances. This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>